Letters to the editor for January 8, 2018

Monday

The hatred that the mainstream media has for President Trump is trying to take away the love and pride Americans have for our country. The bias is so far over the top.

James Thurber said “there are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines and the glare that obscures”. Our media is the latter. The media needs to look into a magnification mirror and truly ask themselves is it an overwhelming fear or hatred of this 45th duly elected president?

This president has opened eyes to corruption that is rampart in D.C. He is a man that cannot be manipulated and the fear from the media is coming through as a deep-seated hatred. The world is watching him and your reaction to him. The media is taking the American spirit and turning it into a cancer. Trying to make America great again is a lofty goal, and if this president was only met half way, maybe we could get there. We are already great in too many ways to mention but our strength needs to be built upon.

There is much progress that has been made, and when the media’s paychecks and 401K’s reflect this, maybe they can find it somewhere in their hearts to say thank you, Mr. President, for clearing the way, for unleashing all the policies that are allowing us to have success.

To the media: Those who lose a tug of war often land in the mud. Look at your poll numbers.

When you look into that magnifying mirror, ask yourself how much is my hatred and fear for this president damaging my country?

Sheila McCartney, Ocala

School tax strategy

It would seem that the Marion County School Board wants to disenfranchise a lot of folks (perhaps as many as 30 percent of the voting public) with their desire to place the 1-mill school tax renewal issue on the primary election ballot instead of the general election ballot. Or do you suppose they are going to allow those of us who are registered as non-partisan to vote in the primary?

Their justification seems to be that the general public isn’t smart enough to handle more than a couple of issues at a time when we vote.

But then, the fact that we elected them may be proof that they are right.

James Bispo, Ocala

Destructive policies

If you care at all about the United States that you will leave to your children and grandchildren, you need to take action to remove the current Republican administration from control of this country.

While other nations, including China, are working to reduce fossil fuel usage, even banning or reducing the number of gas-burning vehicles, this government is pressing forward with unlimited oil and gas exploration. We are surging backward in history at an alarming rate.

It isn’t enough that we are the only country not joining the Paris climate accords, we are removing restrictions on all sorts of environmental problems, from toxic waste sites to extremely dangerous chemical pollutants. It’s as if this group of Republicans has seen so many dystopian futures portrayed in movies, they are determined to take us in that direction.

Now, if you don’t give a darn about your children and grandchildren, you support this group of money-grubbing fascists. Have a happy new year.

Richard Lytle, Ocala

Paying for the wall

Mexico says it won’t pay for the wall, but they will — and here’s how.

When we eliminate illegals coming into the USA, we eliminate spending billions of taxpayer money to support them, school them, give them health care and house them.

The wall will stop human trafficking and the drug cartels coming from Mexico and distributing drugs to our citizens who, when drugged up, apply for all our free (but taxpayer services) by being non-productive and ill. Mexico benefits from these illegal operations and turns their heads to the illegality of it all because they get kickbacks.

If the wall stops all the expenses of the various and sundry things associated with not having a wall, that is how Mexico pays for the wall, and it is by savings to us in the short and long runs.

Pat Floyd, Ocala

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